Flexible connecting-pipe.



G. W. HENRY, Jn. FLEXIBLE OOIIBOTIIQ PIPE.

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0I PBILLDILBEIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ABSIGNOTL, BY limit-s3 mm T0 BALDWIN'LOOOIO'IVE WORKS, 0l' PHILADELPHIA, PEHNYL- Vuil, .L OOIPOILTIN lPmlYLVNIA.

FLEXIBLE COUNECTING-PIPE.

remmen Feb. s, mio.

Ipeeteatiea at-Lewin Patent. l Appiieatteajlee Je!! `11, 190e. term le.49,0. 1b damit may amw'n: l part to ve longitudinally inde ndont mf Beitknown that IJGinonoaW.llltul'igJrg., vthe other. "The section D of -tiepipe is a c ftllm 0f the United States, residing in turned attrightanglem'orming a n ok'e onrv. Phxladel Iponnsylvamlai h aveinventadfrying vntvitn lowei` @mi n vvflnn ,e'ftho po-V i certainmprovemente in exlble Connect-g ;riphory of this flnnge being-tg:segment 'of inglpea, o! which the following'ia'a speci-V l't vtiglitfa"yet allow freedom d movement of one rt of vthe apparatn'ay with reapectto' M fnmtion b calati adapted for' an ,exhaust connectying e ogy-lino,fox'wa engine frame to the of an, articulated vloeomotiv theI forwardtrnckfframe in respect to the thot my invention nbeuaedin'other.laceawhere itis deairabla to have a lexi le pipe oonnetion.

In the accompanying drawingz--Fxgnre 1,

.il a hmdlnataeutaonal View ot m impwd' ble exhauat sipe aa adapted to**lll "tial oom n locomotive; and N 1,1. a. data iva ,View of a etail ofthe pipe connection.

i to the drawi A ia the casing A* nlm box of a lortlroinotive, B is thef dareaatinghavi an exhaust mtb. un. om@ ,mreynndo ms n aiountedon oneframe of the locomotive and the boiler call-ging the smoke box is 2.1mountnd npon'a her frame pivoted to the hat mntioned frame, ao that inaasing around enrvaa |the eyhnder caatm has. a lateral movammtindependent o the shell of the lnoke box and, aa the exhaust port 1'y elof the cylinder casting moat `mnnnrnmwate with the exhaust nonle Civthin the smoke in):I the connecting pipe muet havesufficientflexibility to allow one part to move freely with respect to'the other. y 4l Dil an exhault pi eextendingixom the exhaust' b incvfinder casting to the n e C in the smoke box. Th1-soxtwo parts D', D.the

1a enlar a d and .bored so este nephorelso .asto 'hrm n hull fittingfrmmded sgat b'v which forins n socket'.- 4'Tho `two parta am ground mns'toninko n-ntoinn l'is nca "flew coiled spring F which tends to fornothe socz tion D'v down upon .its sent.

x und the two surfaces are anni tho rin ,must tnx'nfwith'the nei v `vontchanting ofthe-aiming Je.

of, apart D; Intim ond ti ht'joint.

der costing and this un has nn intvrnnl nausea-nud betvyeonfthm tiangeami4 the -onthe auction 1) ofthe pipe is n -Inorder to prevent chafnofthe opi-ing against the` agle of the cap Ipreforably mount u. flan fbetween the spring rin nod the finnge e? of t io cup E, andin order toallow `the ring f to turn with tho pipo tion li'yl form rojectona f'onthe finnge of Athe ringI n' ich interlock with proections a 0n t uflange o' of the socliwl l) of thu pipo, so thut while the pipo suctimxin free to :nova vertically in rcupcot to the ring j the ring must tnrnwith it.

The inactionv D inatance so as to aline with the oxhnnst nozzle C, thecxhauntnozzlo in'this inotancv being no1-nml to a rin f A' attnvho totho :easing A of tho smoke ax, and nttncinnl to this rin is a cup G. Thopipo section D: has a ange i the underside of this finnge boing in theform of a al ment of e sglwm and rests agninnt o ourl aant g in tin" upund so a: to make n nteam tight joint ant yet allow ono to havo froeilnmot movement in tho otlwr.

In order to hold the flange i to its, neat t pince n coiled springl Jbetween tho flange k'whic 1 bears n minst thenntioisih. of t n'. ring A'secure( to tho casing of tho mnoko box; the spring matin f in n grooveformed in tho flnngn i on wel ne in tho` groove formed in the ring/ 1nml anni ring /u hun projections lc which interlock with )roj'ections onthe end of the emotion D o vthe 'oxlmnst pipe:l sothat the, ring J.:

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